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A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.

Flour made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetic persons.

Notwithstanding; yet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ebraic curve, a curve such that the equation which expresses the relation between the coördinates of its points involves only the ordinary operations of algebra; -- opposed to a transcendental curve.

nsive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the…

One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.

Of or pertaining to the algæ, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.

Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.

ritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

Affording food; nourishing. [R.] "Alimonious humors." Harvey.

Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline.

A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye; orchanet.

ge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.

Pertaining to or designating the humid division of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.

Tending to alleviate. -- n.

A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values.

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.